public enterprise
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“We have an existing agreement,” Duma, minister for public enterprise and state investment, told Reuters on the telephone from Port Moresby.
From Reuters ● Nov. 26, 2018
If ever a public enterprise were ripe for privatization, it’s this one; the ineptitude of the county’s Department of Liquor Control, an 80-year-old remnant of post-Prohibition days, is notorious.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2016
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor also alleged that the family offered her the powerful public enterprise minister's post in 2010 in exchange for business favours.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2016
To a government anxious to remodel a vast and increasingly unprofitable public enterprise – it had 500,000 employees, 4,700 stations and losses of £86.9m in 1961 – he seemed the ideal choice.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013
It was agreed that they should all be on the spot, that evening, and commence their grand public enterprise by moonlight.
From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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